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BJP President Amit Shah today justified his party's move to form governments in Goa and Manipur, where the just-held assembly polls threw up fractured mandates.

Rejecting allegations that the BJP made a back door entry to power in Goa and Manipur, Shah said the saffron outfit had polled the highest votes in these states, where the Congress failed to get a clear mandate.

"Goa and Manipur ended up with hung assemblies. In such cases, tradition has been that the party which has the support of maximum MLAs forms the government," he said.